Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Welcome back. Now, there’s beenan odd phenomena happening in the Trump campaign, and I’m not talking aboutthe Trump campaign. Uh, it’s aboutsome of his followers. And you have a lot ofblack people supporting Trump. Um, black peoplesupporting Trump? (exclaiming) So, where arethese black people? Well, I had some of themin my studio the other day,…
YoutubeJanet Mock, a black transgender activist and author, cancelled an upcoming appearance at Brown University after leftist students protested her decision to speak. The students didn’t object to Mock: rather, they disagreed with the venue—Hillel, a Jewish organization. According to Campus Reform, activist students associate Hillel with anti-Palestinian racism: “Hillel as a corporation has consistently defended…
As any high-profile Twitter user with a Jewish-sounding last name can tell you, the surest way to see anti-Semitism flood your mentions column is to tweet something negative about Donald Trump. My anti-Trump tweets have been met with such terrifying and profound anti-Semitism that I bought a gun earlier this month. Over the coming weeks,…
If you’re a woman in science you are probably aware of what seems like a recent outbreak of harassment scandals in the scientific community. There was the shocking outspoken misogyny of Noble laureate Tim Hunt in June of last year, the two extremely alarming cases, nearly one right after the other, of male astronomers harassing…
It’s a common refrain in comments sections across the land: The pay gap is nothing more than a manifestation of the fact that women prefer low-paying occupations. Well, guess what? When women move en masse to a male-dominated field, paychecks wither. At the New York Times, Claire Cain Miller slices the pay gap several different…
Dreamin’ of a matriarchal society… Photo: JGI/Tom Grill/Blend Images Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Center recently conducted a study that found women need more sleep than men. About 20 more minutes of sleep per night, to be precise. Why? The director of the Sleep Research Center told the New York Post: “Women’s…
I’ve been fantasizing about writing fiction a lot lately. I lie in the bathtub and think about what utterly batshit things I could hide in a novel, things I’d never have to answer for. I’m sure that “So, how much of this character is autobiographical?” would get annoying fast, but anything would be preferable to…
On an early Friday morning in late June 2006, Cheyenne Szydlo, a 33-year-old Arizona wildlife biologist with fiery red hair, drove to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim to meet the river guide who would be taking her along the 280 miles of the Colorado River that coursed a mile below. She was excited. Everyone in…
At the Javits Center in Manhattan last Saturday, hundreds of teenagers milled about in sneakers and safety goggles, tinkering with the robots they had brought to the FIRST Robotics Competition New York City Regional. Requests for parts (dowel rods, PVC pipe) boomed out over the PA system. Parents lingered near each team’s staging area, sporting…
Via Yelp Williamsburg, the Meatpacking District of Brooklyn, now has its very own club-related sexual harassment lawsuit—a handful of employees at nightclub Verboten on North 11th Street are suing their employers, alleging that owner Jen Schiffer, her husband, and her boyfriend (yep) openly discussed their sex lives, barraged employees with sexual advances and, in…